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In facilč ą virtute desciscentes.
Easily deflected from the right course
Parva velut limax Remora spreto[1] impete venti,
Remorumque ratem sistere sola potest.
Sic quosdam ingenio & virtute ad sydera vectos,
Detinet in medio tramite causa levis.
Anxia lis veluti est, vel qui meretricius ardor
Egregiis iuvenes sevocat ą studiis.[2]
Just as the little slug, the remora, scorning the impetus of wind and oars, can by itself stop a ship from moving, so some trivial reason holds back in mid-course people who through intellect and ability are on their way to the stars: for example, a worrying law-suit, or that desire for whores which entices young men away from their good studies.
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A ceulx qui facilement lais-
sent vertus.
Il est des gens, dont la nature
Est si noble, heureuse, & puissante,
Que silz suyvoient leur adventure,
Ilz auroient vers tout bon heur sente:
Peu de cas retient leur entente,
Com Remora grand nef retient.
Ainsi amours proces pour rente,
Lestude a vifz espritz detient.
Aultrement.
Aulcuns vigoureux desperit
Se arrestent a petit de chose,
Ce pendant leur temps se perit,
Aux amours proces noise enclose:
Ilz laissent loix, vers latins, prose,
Pour satisfaire a leur facon.
Cest comme la nef qui repose,
Par Remora petit poisson.
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- sea (seascape) [25H23] Search | Browse Iconclass
- wave [25H2311] Search | Browse Iconclass
- three persons [31A(+73)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- index finger forwards, pointing, indicating [31A25552] Search | Browse Iconclass
- head-gear (+ men's clothes) [41D221(+81)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailor [45D323] Search | Browse Iconclass
- parts of ship's exterior (with NAME) [46C215(ANCHOR)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- sailing-ship, sailing-boat (+ under way, at sea (~ travelling)) [46C24(+63)] Search | Browse Iconclass
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- Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventł' (Ripa) [31D120] Search | Browse Iconclass
- litigation, legal proceedings, lawsuit [44G41] Search | Browse Iconclass
- 'litterae', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ literature; 'Lettere' (Ripa) [48C90] Search | Browse Iconclass
- education, science and learning [49] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Weakness, Powerlessness, Helplessness; 'Infermitą' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54AA7(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Temptation; 'Tentatione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54C4(+4)] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Virtuousness; 'Amor di Virtu', 'Attione virtuosa', 'Guida sicura de' veri honori', 'Virtu', 'Virtu insuperabile' (Ripa) [57A6] Search | Browse Iconclass
- Licentiousness, Lasciviousness; 'Lascivia', 'Licenza' (Ripa) [57AA51] Search | Browse Iconclass
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